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The Electronic Structure and Phase Stabilities of Metallic Alloys

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Condensed matter consists of positively charged atomic nuclei and the electron ‘glue’ which holds them together. Although it is attractive to attempt to model it by neutral atoms interacting via relatively weak pairwise ‘effective interactions’ in general this can not be done with impunity. Usually such phenomenological approaches break down due to proliferation of adjustable parameters. Evidently this undermines both the predictive and interpretative power of the analysis. Hence, there is no substitute to forging a parameter-free and quantitative theory of the complex degenerate Fermi liquid ‘glue’ to complement phenomenological calculations. Such theory is the general aim of ‘first-principles’ calculations of the electronic structure. This talk will concern past present and future first-principles calculations relevant to the state of compositional order in metallic alloys. Special attention will be paid to phase instabilities induced by Fermi Surface effects.

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  1. H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 ITL, UK

    B. L. Györffy & A. Barbieri

  2. Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, 94551-0969, USA

    D. D. Johnson

  3. Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA

    D. M. Nicholson, W. A. Shelton & G. M. Stocks

  4. Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221, USA

    F. J. Pinski

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Györffy, B.L., Barbieri, A., Johnson, D.D. et al. The Electronic Structure and Phase Stabilities of Metallic Alloys. MRS Online Proceedings Library 186, 3–20 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-186-3

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